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...Sierra Leone, Taylor disappeared. Police sources in Calabar told TIME they believe Taylor's vanishing act was instigated by some of his supporters with the connivance of Nigerian officials, who wanted to relieve themselves of responsibility for arresting Taylor. Nigerian authorities arrested 22 police officers guarding his residence for "misconduct, dereliction of duty and offenses prejudicial to discipline," and Obasanjo has set up a panel to investigate Taylor's disappearance. "President Obasanjo obviously did not know about the plan to make Taylor 'disappear,' but some of his security aides knew," says an official in the State Security Service in Abuja...
Martin's coaching of the Moussaoui witnesses was discovered when one of them became so put off by her persistent e-mails that she showed them to prosecutors, who then informed the judge of Martin's misconduct. "In all my years on the bench, I've never seen a more egregious violation of the rule about witnesses," Brinkema said. She warned Martin that she may face criminal charges. Martin, who has been placed on paid administrative leave by the TSA, wouldn't comment. Her mother, Jean Martin Lay, told TIME that her daughter is "really devastated" by the accusations. Martin...
...looks much less likely. And because of our firm position against capital punishment, we welcome the likely outcome of this scenario—a lifetime prison sentence, rather than a lethal injection, for Moussaoui. Yet, it will arrive due to less-than-fortunate circumstances. This episode reveals an impermissible misconduct from the executive branch and its prosecuting arm. True, it is no easy task to prosecute immensely complex cases against terrorist suspects. But considering the vast amount of resources required to build and prosecute a case like Moussaoui’s, the Department of Justice must be much more careful...
Last week, the St. Louis Board of Aldermen passed a momentous piece of legislation. The bill established a civilian review board to consider and rule on accusations of police misconduct. The board will act as an alternative to the police department’s internal affairs division, a body within the department that has no accountability to the citizens of St. Louis. Or at least that is how the Aldermen wanted it.Unfortunately for the Aldermen—and those who elected them—they don’t have the final say. Their civilian review board plan will...
...incidents involving U.S. citizens on the high seas, took several weeks to interview the bartender, who claimed what happened in that bathroom stall had been consensual. After her criminal case landed in the "he said, she said" file, Kelly sued the cruise line, which promptly fired the bartender for misconduct (even consensual sexcapades between crew members and passengers are officially verboten) and sent him home to Jamaica. Several months later, she discovered through private investigators that he had been hired by another cruise line...